[Stoat]

About

 

I began my career in newspaper journalism more than a decade ago as an editorial writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News (1992-94).  Covered school board meetings and pole sign ordinances. Exposed Rep. Maxine Waters' gang-infested job-training center boondoggle. Received a death threat from the Mexican mafia. Moved to the Pacific Northwest and worked at the Seattle Times from 1996 to 1999. Wrote editorials supporting a repeal of the death tax. Opposed editorial board on everything else. Exposed Gov. Gary Locke's Buddhist temple cash connections. Opposed publisher and supported successful campaign to abolish race-based affirmative action in government hiring, contracting, and college admissions. Quit job and moved to Washington, D.C.

My column, now syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. My first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery 2002), was a New York Times bestseller.

Other: Fox News Channel contributor. Oberlin College grad. Philadelphia-born. South Jersey-raised. I live with my husband and two children in Maryland. Reach me via e-mail at malkin@comcast.net.

[Stoat]

[Clemenza]

I sent Michelle an email a few days back asking here when she would be posing in Maxim. No response as of yet.

[gubamyster]

With crack staff & high-end equipment like this in use, I foresee no problems in our ability to document & track those guest workers & their employers once they all register for the program.

[Ready4Freddy]

And while they're at it, why not cross-reference against every frickin' obit in the US since 9/11........ *rollseyes*

Why didn't it occur to anybody to cross-check the official list of Sept. 11 victims against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' records?

[Waco]

If Iraq can succeed in setting up an uncontrollable bureauracy ala US, the enemy will never win???

[Poundstone]

I would feel a lot better about Michelle Malkin if I knew she had never filed an immigration petition on behalf of her Filipino relatives. Unfortunately, I suspect she has done so -- and thereby contributed to the massive LEGAL immigration crisis confronting America, about which I have written before on this web site.

[Conservative Infidel]

What? She is "spoken for"? But... but... I have been saving myself just for her. What am I to do now?

[kittymyrib]

This is the same throughly inept government that we are supposed to trust to take care of us in our retirement...incredible. That's why when the Dems and RINOs whine about trusting Wall St. with 5% of our SS funds, I question their sanity. Or perhaps I question ours, because we would still be handing over 95% to the least-trustworthy entity in our lives, the federal government.

[ArGee]

-- The nation's various fingerprint databases still have not been integrated because of bickering among FBI, State Department and homeland security officials, which means that most visitors entering the country still aren't thoroughly screened for terrorist or criminal ties.

While I like Michelle this statement shows the problem we all have with coming to grips with the monumental task facing the U.S. in homeland security. To be honest, I wouldn't know about it if I hadn't had business reason to be dumped in the middle of the personal identity issue.

Simply put, how does the U.S. know that you are truly you when it enters you into any database? They are probably counting on your driver's license, which probably has a photo on it since most (if not all) do these days, but how did DMV know you were you when it put the photo there? They probably relied on a birth certificate and, in some states, a Social Security card. Neither of those has any proof of the bearer's identification other than his word. (When I got my photo DL at 16 my mom came with me and vouched for my identity, but what was the proof she knew?)

Since there are differing standards for verifying you are who I think you are based on my need for proof, it is not at all unreasonable that different agencies would be slow to adopt verified identity information - such as a fingerprint database - without understanding exactly how each one determined the identity before taking the fingerprints. Andy Taylor might let Otis into his jail based on sight, but should the FBI let Otis' records into their database tied to something as verifiable as fingerprints on the same criteria?

It's not bickering for the FBI to say it won't accept a fingerprint as being tied to a person without a good idea of how the supplying agency verified the identity of the person.

I don't know how many of the other issues Michelle brought up are stimied by similar problems, but I don't think it's fair to say it's all about interagency bickering and incompetence.

Shalom.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[fight_truth_decay]

Found message board discussions with Malkin on this site:
http://journal.houseonahill.net/index.php/journal/entry/the-americans/

At the moment, I don't have time to check the frequency. Perhaps you could be more specific on the "bone you have to pick" with Michelle; such as link to your commentary. Are they suspicions or facts. I only posted this as I am not a fan of open ended statements when questioning the integrity of another. Educate me in brief.

Will read back later.

fight_truth_decay

[Dante3]

BUMP!

[Marine Inspector]

Do you remember when immigration officials sent out flight school visa approval notices for two of the 9/11 hijackers -- six months after they had committed their suicide attacks on America?

First off, they were not "visa approval notices". They were in fact the notice to the school, that his students "change of status" had been approved. The dates on those notices were a full month before 9/11.

The notices arrived late, due to the backlog of the “contractor" that send the notices.

[Robert Lomax]

Michelle has written a lot of good articles. This is not one of them. O.K., three thousand people died in the WTC bombing and she supposes DHS should check the list of casulties. Hundreds of thousands of aliens die in this country each year, she gives no suggestion as how DHS should check which of these deaths are aliens.

Receiving a "Green Card" after someone's death can not be more emotional then the death of that individual at the hands of terrorists that could have been prevented had congress had the will to control our borders. Malkin arouses emotion getting into the touchy-feely aspect of dead people receiving "Green Cards" however, she gives no suggestion as how to fix the problem. A problem, I might add, that could only be fixed by congress instituting new laws that would require local civil officials to report the status of deceased. Hiring teams of people to search all the obituaries in the country on a daily basis would be too costly. Even then there would be some that would get missed.

As for the backlog she discusses...much of this was created after 9/11 when security checks were placed into the system. The people who are waiting for the so-called "Green Card" still have status whether or not they physically have the document in hand. For the most part these people are the honest immigrants.

No one reading this forum needs to be told that there are illegals in this country working and none of them have a green card to show their employers. What needs to be done is fine the hell out of employers who hire illegals and make it severe enough that they won't hire illegals. But again, congress doesn't have the will to give DHS the resources to enforce the laws that it writes. What a spineless bunch of bastards.

Michelle, I wish you'd write more on the massive fraud that goes on with our H1B visas that the government has failed to go after. I'd dare say that there are so-called business that are committing immigration fraud to the level that would make the Enron debacle look small in comparison.

Eugueni Kniazev's family should have reported his death to immigration officials. Its not a pleasant thing, but anyone who has had a death in the family knows that there are a lot of things to be settled upon the death of a family member. If he had insurance, the insurance agent could have helped them.